The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1887-02-04
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Congressman from Virginia, weighs
more than three hundred pounds.
Mr.. Gladstone has rent-roll and
land-income of $40, 900 year, and is
reported to hold several million dollars
worth of railroad shares.
Claus Spreckels says Ring Kalakaua
of the Sandwich Islands cannot be
moved by reason. but can be ruled
through the gin-bottle.
DR.. Mark Hopkins, at eighty-four, and
David Dudley Field, at eighty-two, con-
fess to an interest in life as keen as that
felt quarter of century ago.
A bronze statue of Frederick the Great
has been placed in the Hall of Glory in
the arsenal of Berlin. It is twice life
size, and represents him in his tradi-
tional attitude, with his crooked stick.
In recent discourse DIR. Hopkins,
ex-President Of Williams, stated that, of
the 1850 graduates of the college. g.
229 have sat under his instruction in
the sixty-one years during which he has
been connected with it.
Miss May Yore, Michael Davitt's
fancee, is the principal soprano in the
choir of the Church of st. Francis de
Sales, Oakland, Cal. She is not an
heiress, as has been reported, but will
receive some property eventually from
her aunt, Mrs. Canning
Benjamin Moore, who died in Berlin
recently, left by win a reward of 81 for
every policeman reporting a case of
cruelty TO animals. Gas men have no
hearts" he wrote in his will, 81 leave
my money to the brutes." And he did,
enrichlng the Berlin Society for the
Protection Of Animals by nearly $780,
600.
The 600 tornadoes recorded show that
their whirl is almost invariably in the
same direction-oppostf sse hands of
watch-apH- std51r onward movement
with us is nearly always northeastward.
Their fayorite time of day is known,
and tabulated list of 1872 shows nearly
two-thirds between and p. m.
A new trick in pocket-picking has
been discovered in Atlanta, Ca, where
the Hon. Patrick Walsh of Augusta
was robbed in crowded hotel elevator
by young man who said: Excuse
me, please. sir, but my watch-chain is
caught in one of your buttons" 1t was
in Strengthening out the pretended en-
tanglement that the larceny was COM
mitted.
The King of the Belgians is to become
the purchaser of the Villa Hohenlohe,
Queen Victoria's residence at Baden
| Baden, which her Majesty is now trying
to sell. King Leopold inspected the
villa and grounds recently, and has
come to the conclusion that the purchase
| is q desirable one, though the Queen is
somewhat exacting in her demand.
Although an approachable and genial
man. the late Meyer Karl Won Roths-
child was the proudest member of his
house. For time he was the only
Baron on Change, and after Erlanger
was made Baron he refused to be seen
there, not wishing TO recognize the new
noble. So he got the King of Wurtem-
burg to give one of his clerks barony,
and sent him on Change to deal with
Erlanger,
A Lancaster, Pa, grocer has adopted
rather novel way of collecting debts.
The Other morning he placed in his
store window list giving the names of
persons who owe him money. with their
places of residence. The sums range
from 81 to 800. and the names are
written in large, plain hand so that all
who wish may read them. At the top
of the list there is notice stating that
the accounts will be sold very cheap.
Mrs. Cleveland is SAID to receive more
letters from Hagerstown, Md. than
from any other place in the country.
Shortly after her marriage two little,
girls living in that town sent her let
ter and bouquet of flowers The let
ter was answered. and in a short time
was copied by the town newspaper.
From that Time Mrs Cleveland has
been addressed by young and old from
Hagerstown on all sorts Of subjects and
for all sorts of purposes.